Todd Blanch

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch says more than 500 lawyers and other Justice Department staff worked through weekends and holidays to comply with the mandate from Congress.

He says the reviewers had to examine the equivalent of two Eiffel Towers of pages to decide what materials to release.

The Justice Department continues to withhold papers that depict violence or involve attorney-client privilege.

DOJ says some of the material contains sensational and false claims that

about President Trump.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to release the Epstein files.

Once in office, he fought efforts in Congress to press for their full release.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

We said in July, and it remains as true today as it was in July, if we had information, we meaning the Department of Justice, about men who abused women,

we would prosecute them, right?

We talked about the work that we're doing.

That's why I said that.

I said this earlier.

There's this built-in assumption that somehow there's this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about that we're covering up or that we're choosing not to prosecute.

That is not the case.

I don't know.

whether there are men out there that abuse these women.

If we learn about information and evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will.

But I don't think that the public or you all are going to uncover men within the Epstein files that abuse women, unfortunately.

How did I do what?